By Daniel "Dan" Carter Beard

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CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

Simplest Rig Possible; Leg-of-Mutton Rig; The Latteen Rig; The Cat Rig; How
to Make a Sail; Hints to Beginners.

CHAPTER XIV.

NOVELTIES IN SOAP-BUBBLES

Every Boy his own Bubble-Pipe.

CHAPTER XV.

FOURTH OF JULY BALLOONS; WITH NEW AND NOVEL ATTACHMENTS

CHAPTER XVI.

HOW TO CAMP OUT WITHOUT A TENT

Hints to Amateur Campers; Provisions; Shelter; Choosing Companions.

CHAPTER XVII.

BIRD SINGERS, ETC

The Block Bird Singer; The Corn-Stalk Fiddle; The Pumpkin-vine Flute; A
Pumpkin-vine Flute; Cane Fife; The Voice Disguiser; The Locust Singer; The
Hummer;

CHAPTER XVIII.

BIRD NESTING

How to Collect and Preserve Eggs; Birds' Nests; Preserving Nests.

CHAPTER XIX.

HOW TO REAR WILD BIRDS

Robins, Thrushes, Wrens, and other Small Birds; Squabs; The Cow Blackbird;
Wrens, Sparrows, and Finches; The Bobolink; The Catbird; Robins; The Brown
Thrush, or Thrasher; The Wood Thrush; Bluebirds; The Summer Yellowbird; The Blue
Jay; Humming-Bird.

CHAPTER XX.

HOW TO REAR WILD BIRDS--Continued.

The Crow, Hawk, and other Large Birds; The Hawk; The Hawk as a Scare-Crow;
The Hawk as a Decoy; Owls; Sea Birds; Strange Domestic Fowls.

CHAPTER XXI.

HOME-MADE HUNTING APPARATUS; ETC.

Spearing Fish; How to Make a Fish Spear; How to Make the Torches and
Jack-Lights; How to Make the Boomerang; To Throw a Boomerang; The Miniature
Boomerang; The Whip-Bow; Throw Sticks; The Bird Bolas; The Elastic
Cross-Bow.

EVERY BOY A DECORATIVE ARTIST

CHAPTER XXVII.

How to Build Snow
Forts; How to Make Shields and Ammunition Sleds; How to
Build the Fort; How to Make an Ammunition Sled; How to Make the Shield; Rules of
the Game; A Snow Battle; How to Bind a Prisoner without a Cord; Company
Rest.

PUSS-IN-BOOTS, DRAMATIZED AND ADAPTED FOR A PUPPET -SHOW

CHAPTER XXXVII.

HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC LANTERN: A KALEIDOSCOPE; A FORTUNE-TELLER'S BOW, ETC.

A Home-Made Kaleidoscope; The Fortune-Teller's Box; The Magic Cask; How the
Barrel is Made.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

HOW TO MAKE THE DANCING FAIRIES, THE BATHER, AND THE ORATOR.

How to Make a Handkerchief Doll; The Bather; The Orator.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

HOW TO MAKE VARIOUS AND DIVERSE WHIRLIGIGS

Potato Mill; A Saw-Mill; The Rainbow Whirligig; A Paradoxical Whirligig; The
Phantasmoscope, or Magic Wheel.

CHAPTER XL.

THE UNIVERSE IN A CARD-BOX

CHAPTER XLI.

LIFE INSTILLED INTO PAPER PUPPETS, AND MATCHES MADE OF HUMAN FINGERS

To Light the Gas with your Finger.

CHAPTER XLII.

HOME-MADE MASQUERADE AND THEATRICAL COSTUMES

The White Man of the Desert; The Fourteenth Century Young Man; The Medieval
Hat; The Wig; Eyebrows, Moustache, and Beard; The Doublet; Trunks; Tights; To
Dress; The Baby; How to Make a Handkerchief Hood.

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